A hundred feet away the neo-Gothic tower, with its crenellated roof and single round turret, had graced the cover of many a book and tourist brochure.

一百英尺开外是新哥特塔，它钝锯齿状屋顶边缘绕着一个圆塔顶，那形象占据了很多书籍和旅游册子的封面。

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The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks.

火山栓就像黑色橡皮泥一样使砖结构的城堡稳稳的耸立于天地之间。

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Now, at thirty, I'd found all I needed in the sweet, real world of Cedar Valley, where I lived-the mountain peaks forming a torn-edged horizon, like a castle's crenellated walls, protecting me within a bowl of neatly laid out streets lined with well-established homes and mature trees.

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There's not a trace of the gooey black stuff visible in the sound's 3, 500 miles of crenellated coastline.

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